- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Mass Market (Jun 1 1999)
- ISBN-10: 0380732076
- ISBN-13: 978-0380732074
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
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This is an accelerating comedy with shadows setting off the wry, polished humor. Trickster deities thrive on contrariety, which is why one finds them bringing life into dead landscapes and disorder into order. A Santa Barbara insurance salesman's too-tidily-contained lifestyle, far from the Crow reservation he grew up on, is an irresistible target for Coyote, who wants to make sure his chosen people don't forget him. Coyote descends on Sam Hunter like one of Job's plagues, albeit a charmingly disingenuous one. "Why me? Why not someone who believes?" asks Sam, suffering from god-induced chaos. "This is more fun," says Coyote. He's right.
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A lonely Crow Indian turned yuppie insurance salesman seeks the power of an ancient Indian god to give him enough courage to approach the woman of his dreams.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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While magic powder was sprinkled on the sidewalk outside, Samuel Hunter moved around his office like a machine, firing out phone calls, checking computer printouts, and barking orders to his secretary. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Not Just Hysterically Funny, But Unbelievably Smart,
By MagicMan (Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Coyote Blue (Paperback)
Over the past year, I've become a huge Christopher Moore fan. This guy LOVES to write these stories - you can tell - and that makes them a real pleasure to read. While everyone enjoys his humour, he's also very clearly a smart, perceptive and unique literary voice.Coyote Blue is probably at the top of my list because it is a classic Moore treatment on the mythology of the Trickster God, something Moore seems to divinely possess a unique and intelligent understanding for. Ribald, edgy, absurd and fatalistic, Coyote Blue starts the engine and never takes its foot of the accelerator. It claims, like Lamb, a literary geography between sacred and sacriligious that seems and feels an impossible place to write. But Moore not only finds that space, he revels in it, squeezing an amazingly insightful portrait of Coyote out of not just the mythology, but a real understanding what what the Trickster God represents and how these stories could be told in a modern comedic plot. Funny, shocking and surprisingly moving, I highly recommend Coyote Blue. I'm sure this is one of few books that I'll pick up and read cover-to-cover again soon.
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This review is from: Coyote Blue (Paperback)
Coyote Blue is laugh-out-loud hilarious. As Moore warns in the pronunciation guide, don't try reading this in public. With each book of Moore's, I become more amazed at his ability to be obscenely funny and satirical, yet somehow respectful to the deepest truths underlying the story.The characters in this book are a little thinner than usual, but that may be due to so many of the characters being attributes in human form. The minor characters like Adeline Eats were very well portrayed. The storyline seemed a little jumpier to me than usual also, with major shifts in time and place, but that may be because I was reading so fast, since Moore's books always pull you along like a crazy amusement park ride.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Moore hillarious fun and antics....,
By girldiver "Enjoy!" (tangled up in blue.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Coyote Blue (Paperback)
Where else can you find a zany jokester indian GOD, a corrupt condo manager, a multi-religious blond woman, and a bunch of hard riding bikers.Christopher Moore does it again in this laugh out loud funny story of Sam Hunter, runaway Crow Indian turned slick talking Santa Barbara insurance salesman. Sam Hunter has spent 17 years away from his heritage, building a so called life amoung the white man has made Sam Hunter a hollow man with a mercedes, cool condo, and a closet full of armani suits. Then a beautiful but odd blond woman strikes his fancy and a Zany Indian God turns his life upside down. All of a sudden his very planned and predictable life becomes a complete nightmare and he is afraid 17 years of hiding his crime will be revealed. Same struggles with his identity, love, doubt, and ultimately his religious beliefs. This is a wild, crazy journey full of wacky and racy events that will make you break out in laughter so read it where you can laugh out loud and not get kick out.
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